On: Scala vs Go

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Java was a way For Sun to sell more servers so they pushed it as application server technology.

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But do you know who designed the server tech? Was it old mainframe people?

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For what it's worth, the initial EJB spec was written by IBM, so I guess the answer to your question could be yes.

"The EJB specification was originally developed in 1997 by IBM and later adopted by Sun Microsystems"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBeans

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Thank you for the link. I looked up Java EE, which according to wikipedia mostly originated from WebLogic. The founders didn't seem that enterprisey though: http://otechmag.com/magazine/2015/summer/michel-schildmeijer...

So IBM does sound likely.

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The anwers to this question is also interresting: https://www.quora.com/What-were-the-original-principles-behi... .

Hints that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CICS was the product inspiring EJB.